When I was in high school, and this wasn't THAT long ago, late 90s, some kid brought in one of those dummy grenades you can get from any army surplus store. You know the kind that have been drilled out and the explosives removed. The security guard grabbed it, said "Oh cool, one of those dummy grenades" and gave it back to him. The times, they are a'changin'

After being given the opportunity to experience the breadth, depth, and quality of "Opposing Views" as near-daily links on Fark for the past couple of months, I'd just like to say that my honest opinion is that the entire site, its writers, its concept, and its execution are wholly without merit, quality, interest, value, or worth, and that if everyone responsible for creating, writing for, producing, editing, linking, and otherwise causing it to continue its existence were to stop tomorrow and never again think of doing anything remotely like it, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

dickfreckle:I can't count the times I was stabbed with a pencil/pen. In Catholic schools. The early 90s. No one cared about it, and we healed.

And no one said a thing.

Apparently it's different if you make gun noises while doing it. Sheesh.

"Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders", thanks to the hand-wringing, pants-wetting stupidity of people like Bethanne Bradshaw. If we didn't obsess over being unable to protect kids from the unforeseeable, we could let them live normal lives.

To paraphrase, those who would give up happiness for security will achieve neither.

It's a greater disservice to the child who has been suspended. If you use the same psycho-babble that these people use you could easily make the case that you're stifling the creativity of this child and causing him undue trauma for punishing him for something that he does naturally. Couple that with the stigma and certain derision he will face from his classmates and teachers and you're essentially creating a recipe for an anti-social teenager. And we all know how these people feel about the dangers of being anti-social. We're pretty farked. We've reached the point where our educators lack common sense and intelligence.

Well, stop voting the way you do, putting those people in charge of your schools, wetting yourselves when other people educate themselves differently, in a less silly politically correct fashion and you'll probably do better and have less drama in your lives. I find it endlessly amusing the hand-wringing that goes on. Your boys, for the most part, like "vroom-vroom" things. It's okay. Your girls may also like it. Conversely, your boy may want to dress like Daphne. He looks like a farking idiot in the pictures and so do you for letting him. If the parents had any stones, they'd have told the school to fark themselves and pointed and laughed at the idiocy while merrily driving away.

Pocket Ninja:After being given the opportunity to experience the breadth, depth, and quality of "Opposing Views" as near-daily links on Fark for the past couple of months, I'd just like to say that my honest opinion is that the entire site, its writers, its concept, and its execution are wholly without merit, quality, interest, value, or worth, and that if everyone responsible for creating, writing for, producing, editing, linking, and otherwise causing it to continue its existence were to stop tomorrow and never again think of doing anything remotely like it, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

Spad31:Well, stop voting the way you do, putting those people in charge of your schools, wetting yourselves when other people educate themselves differently, in a less silly politically correct fashion and you'll probably do better and have less drama in your lives. I find it endlessly amusing the hand-wringing that goes on. Your boys, for the most part, like "vroom-vroom" things. It's okay. Your girls may also like it. Conversely, your boy may want to dress like Daphne. He looks like a farking idiot in the pictures and so do you for letting him. If the parents had any stones, they'd have told the school to fark themselves and pointed and laughed at the idiocy while merrily driving away.

Pocket Ninja:After being given the opportunity to experience the breadth, depth, and quality of "Opposing Views" as near-daily links on Fark for the past couple of months, I'd just like to say that my honest opinion is that the entire site, its writers, its concept, and its execution are wholly without merit, quality, interest, value, or worth, and that if everyone responsible for creating, writing for, producing, editing, linking, and otherwise causing it to continue its existence were to stop tomorrow and never again think of doing anything remotely like it, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

Which qualifies them a valuable source of greenlit links for FARK, so I don't see the problem.

Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for the school, had a different view about the situation. "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made."

So a pencil ISN'T a weapon when you're not making 'bang bang pow pow' sounds with it? This seem to me to be a very dangerous assumption. I will bet you anything that you could stab a whole bunch of people in the ass with a pencil without making ANY sound effects.

jso2897:Pocket Ninja: After being given the opportunity to experience the breadth, depth, and quality of "Opposing Views" as near-daily links on Fark for the past couple of months, I'd just like to say that my honest opinion is that the entire site, its writers, its concept, and its execution are wholly without merit, quality, interest, value, or worth, and that if everyone responsible for creating, writing for, producing, editing, linking, and otherwise causing it to continue its existence were to stop tomorrow and never again think of doing anything remotely like it, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

I love this line though: "Guess the school system will try to outlaw cowboy toy gun sets that Walmart sells next. They can't seem to let kids, be kids..."

Seriously! I mean, like, kids will be kids! It is natural for children to want to kill each other, I mean duh! So let them pretend already! I mean, they are just PRETENDING to kill each other! What wrong with that!

Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for the school, had a different view about the situation. "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made."

If they were playing then it WASN"T threatening. Bethanne, you are pretty high on a list of what is wrong with America today. Your utter lack of common sense & apparent zero understanding of how young boys think & play should be enough to permanently bar you from the education profession. Sadly, your actions here today will probably put you in line for a promotion from similar clueless idiots.

We have GOT to take the education system back from the idiots such as this. Several generations brought up under this nonsense could be enough to destroy any hint of rational thought from our future descendants along with the willingness to quietly accept any unfair punishment handed out

/of course that may be the ultimate aim of these morons//I doubt it for most of them, they really are that clueless. But someone with evil intent & an army of useful idiots can do lots of harm over enough time

PapaChester:I love this line though: "Guess the school system will try to outlaw cowboy toy gun sets that Walmart sells next. They can't seem to let kids, be kids..."

Seriously! I mean, like, kids will be kids! It is natural for children to want to kill each other, I mean duh! So let them pretend already! I mean, they are just PRETENDING to kill each other! What wrong with that!

Ah yes, archaic thought processes FTL.

Well, I don't know about killing other humans, but testing your strength against other humans is as natural as farting. It may seem archaic but instincts don't change over decades.

NutWrench:Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for the school, had a different view about the situation. "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made."

So a pencil ISN'T a weapon when you're not making 'bang bang pow pow' sounds with it? This seem to me to be a very dangerous assumption. I will bet you anything that you could stab a whole bunch of people in the ass with a pencil without making ANY sound effects.